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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
Published by Boston: Little, Brown and Company, July 1929., 1929
First Edition
Eighth printing of the American first edition (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). [6], 291 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13.75cm. Dust jacket well rubbed and soiled; tears and shallow chipping along edges; slender abrasion along flap folds; muted colors to the Paul Wenck front panel illustration of a youthful soldier based upon an image from a German war bonds poster by Fritz Erler; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Gray woven cloth with red and black lettering; foxing spots to boards and spine with latter lightly bumped at ends. Maroon top edge; mild foxing spots to deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Light toning to front endpapers and rear pastedown with moderate toning to rear free endpaper; past owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper; top corner of pages 103-104 creased from past fold-down. occasional mild foxing most prevalent at bottom margins of rear leaves. A very good- copy in a good dust jacket of Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel set in the brutal combat of World War I and translated to English by Arthur W. Wheen from the original German edition which was published under the title "Im Westen Nichts Neues." The novel was serialized during November and December 1928 in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" and was first issued in book form in late January 1929 by Berlin publisher Im Propylaen-Verlag with translations to twenty-five languages available by 1931. Little, Brown and Company issued the first American printing of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in June 1929 with this eighth printing released just weeks later in July and, although early printings enjoyed exceptionally large print runs, copies with surviving dust jackets are uncommon. A Hollywood cinematic adaptation of the novel was released by Universal Pictures in 1930 and received four Academy Award nominations of which it won two Oscars for Best Picture and for Best Director (Lewis Milestone). {LitShelf#3}.
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All Quiet on the Western Front [First American Printing]
Published by Little, Brown and Company June, 1929, Boston, MA, 1929
First Edition
Hardcover. First American Edition (First Printing). pp. [1], 291. 8vo., measuring 8" x 5.5". Publisher's original gray woven cloth over boards with red-and-black lettering to the spine, and front board; maroon topstain, untrimmed page edges. Light edgewear to the cloth extremities, very faint sunning to the spine, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good and housed in a fine facsimile dustjacket. "First American Printing" stated on the limitation page, with a printing date of June, 1929. Originally serialized in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung in November and December of 1928, it would be published in book form in January of 1929 as "Im Westen nichts Neues" ["Nothing New in the West"]. It would go on to sell more than 2.5 million copies in its first 18 months in print, and be translated to more than 22 languages.
